In a different era of the board there would have been half a dozen tie-ins to detail what various poster-characters were doing to complicate my plot. We'd see how the Oldman sent Donar on a quest about it, what the Chronicler set in motion, how CSFB! met with Gideon Book for a last confrontation, which side Grace O'Mercy was going to be on, how the Baroness attempted to escape the Parodyverse at any cost, etc.

I don't have the time or the narrative room to cover all of those and the scores of other things that must be happening, so I can only drop throwaway hints in the story to suggest that a whole lot more might be happening in the background and cherry-pick the storylines that best illustate where things are going.

I actually had this same problem in the Parody War. I could easily have tossed in another twenty chapters from the ideas list I was working from. We never really got to do a POW Colditz-style escape story, or a pacifist protestor story, or a plane-down-behind-enemy-lines story, or a protect-the-supply-column story, or a Dear John letter story, any of which would have been fun to write in a superhero context. It was about having to keep the focus narrow enough to have a hope of finishing the thing.

My resources now are much more meagre than then, with far less posters (and I was fretting the lack of poster engagement then and thinking that Parody War was probably my last storyline) and even less time to spend on PV fiction. So really I have to push this thing throuh to a conclusion. And that means just offering representative plot-threads and leaving readers to fill in their own behind-the-scenes activity for other characters in whom they are invested.

So, assume that somewhere that afternoon was Al B. Harper and the Convocation of Evil Geniuses, Miss Framlicker and the Date With Peter von Doom, Amy Aston and the Turquoise Area Gravity Engine, Cody Harper and the Space Spider Command Codes, Kara Harper, Chronic, and the Unethical Solution, etc.




When shall those three meet again?

The PVB has always included an interactive element that affects plot. Given the upswing in conversation about a minor character who hasn't appeared for fifteen years it seemed very neccessary to bring her in. Especially because she is one on Danny's evil ex's (along with VV, Dollar Date, White Princess, Black Empress, and Silicone Sally, evidently, and possibly PAPG!).

I never got around to properly having a post-Caphan story arc for Vesper, alas.

And to this day, sixteen years after firsat being referenced, Dollar Date has never actually appeared in any Parodyverse story!